When a GNUcash user requests that data be exported to an “CSV” file the expectation is that the file contents will indeed contain “CSV” data. Therefore I see no reason for omitting the “.csv” file extension.
Just my 2¢ Ken Schneider > On Mar 30, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > I hadn’t noticed since most of my files have extensions anyway, but indeed, > I just tested a markdown file by removing the extension. It changed the > association from Atom to TextEdit, but couldn’t open it. (Something about > UTF-8 not being applicable. ?? Really ?? Opening with Atom worked fine > though.) > > Preview doesn’t work either as noted. > > Thanks for the info. > > Regards, > Adrien > >>> On Mar 29, 2020 w14d89, at 10:17 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 4:52 PM, Adrien Monteleone >>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >>> >>> Linux and Mac don’t generally care if a file has an extension. They >>> determine the file type independent of it. >> >> That's sadly no longer true of MacOS and hasn't been since IIRC 10.7. The >> pre-NeXTStep MacOS used a extended attribute to determine file type and the >> early versions of Mac OS X continued the practice. Support for that was >> deprecated in 10.6 and while not formally removed it seemed to stop working >> in 10.7. There is limited support for determining file type from the command >> line by looking at the file header, but Finder can't do that. File type >> displayed in Finder, application associations, and QuickLook display of >> files is all driven by the extension. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
